Exclusives

Goerge Emiefele, the younger brother of the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emiefele has escaped to London en route to the United States of America, through Cotonou, LeadingReporters can exclusively report.  His escape follows his inability to secure a court order interdicting the Department of State Security Services and the Attorney General of the Federation from arresting and prosecuting him.

Goerge who until his escape worked with NEM Insurance PLC, through the help of the Central Bank Governor had unfettered access to the coffers of the Nigeria, Security and Minting Company, popularly called MINT where the sum of N1.5billion was constantly wired to him under the guise of Annual Premium. 

Our investigation further revealed that George Emiefele who, until his escape was the DGM marketing in NEM Insurance collected the sum of N80million every month from Tawada Nigeria Limited (an affiliate of CBN responsible for the production of inks and raw materials used in printing currencies and other security documents) as coverage for marine insurance. 

To ensure that such transaction was not traced to him, Goerge in connivance with the former Managing Director of Nigeria Security, Printing and Minting Mr Abbas Umar Masanawa (who is currently under investigation by the Department of State Security Services DSS), and the current MINT MD, Halilu Ahmed, fronted another insurance company called Assured Capital Insurance Brokers Limited from where the monies are paid and forwarded to him. 

A source who is in the know of the behind-the-scenes deals revealed to LeadingReporters that Goerge ran the deal with his kinsman Joseph Ebete, the general manager of Assured Capital Insurance Brokers Ltd.  Goerge as well extended his looting spree to other agencies, companies, and affiliates of the Central Bank of Nigeria. 

George Emiefele, according to information unveiled by LeadingReporters leveraged his relationship with Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emiefele milked all the agencies and companies affiliated with the Central Bank of Nigeria such as MINT, Tawada, NIRSAL,

Meanwhile, information available to LeadingReporters has revealed that Godwin Emiefele’s boys, popularly referred to as Emiefele Zenith-Bank-Cult boys in top management positions in MINT, NIRSAL, Tawada are all jittery.  A source said that Emiefele boys are doing everything possible in MINT and NIRSAL to cover links and alter records in favour of the embattled Central Bank Governor Godwin Emiefele. 

An insider source who is part of the team investigating Godwin Emefiele hinted that a lot happened under the watch of the embattled CBN Governor and that soon, Nigerians would be surprised to know the level of impunity, recklessness and untamed corruption that occurred under Emiefele’s Watch.

The immediate governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai is having a tough time convincing President Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Tinubu’s associates that he was coming to serve rather than to scheme.  This follows an intel detailing how El-Rufai is planning to unsettle President Ahmed Bola’s Tinubu government by drumming tribal and religious sentiments that may pit the North against President Tinubu.

The alleged report was said to contain detailed El-Rufai’s secret activities which may negatively affect President Tinubu adversely if allowed to fester. The plan was to de-market Tinubu in the North should he plan to run for a second term. Part of El-Rufai’s plan, according to the source is to unleash tarnishing content against the president using second parties, all in a bid to cause disaffection and thus pave way for El-Rufai’s presidential ambition come 2027.

A discreet source said that Tinubu was flabbergasted at such devious schemes after El-Rufai has severally assured him of his support.

The source said that El-Rufai felt it was easier to spoil from within by serving under President Tinubu.  He was said to have desperately desired to be appointed Chief of Staff to the President or Secretary to the Government of the Federation under Tinubu where he would stay and plan the President’s political downfall. 

“He believes that being in the inner circle of the President’s kitchen cabinet would give him ample opportunity to understand the plans and directions of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government, and thus plan counter strategies that would see his personal ambition materializing.

El-Rufai was said to have mobilized some religious hardliners who would in turn begin to stir religious sentiments that would make President Ahmed Tinubu look like a less-serious Muslim.

“He has perennially leaned towards religious sentiments and tribal bigotry as a way of self-marketing his political plans.  He understands how to unsettle a system using the sentiments of religion and he has marshalled out his strategy to unleash religious threats that may see Tinubu as a weak Muslim in the eyes of the North.  Such plans include sponsoring activities that would see the North branding Southwestern Muslims as weak Muslims.  He intends to weaponize that strategy”.  The source said.